Chapter 18 Video and Web Links

New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500–1800

Audio / Video / Film

  1. Early American Colonies (6:17)

Short overview of the major colonies set-up in North America and the European powers that established them.

  1. Colonial America 1497–1763 (6:20)

Brief overview of the explorers who discovered the Americas and the subsequent colonies which were established there between 1497–1763.

Web Links

  1. Wonderful interactive website that allows you to track the journey’s made by the Conquistadors such as Cortés, Pizzaro, Orellana, and Cabeza De Vaca. Learn more about their conquests in the Americas and the legacy they left behind them.
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